unhuman

[ uhn-hyoo-muhn, or, often, ‐yoo-muhn ]

adjective
  1. lacking human attributes: The unhuman figures in his earlier work were not well received.

  2. of a quality or power beyond what is human; superhuman: Her hands clenched the chair with unhuman strength.

  1. not a member of the human species: Of our unhuman relatives, I love the mountain gorillas best.

Origin of unhuman

1
First recorded in 1780–85; un-1 + human

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How to use unhuman in a sentence

  • The parents then kept watch, and saw the devil near her in a monstrous unhuman form.

  • This was the foul revenge that Rogue Rogan had planned, the evil death he had plotted with his unhuman companions.

    Runaway | William Morrison
  • For him the perfect woman is the most unhuman; he admires the woolless sheep and the scentless flower.

    Lola Montez | Edmund B. d'Auvergne
  • There was something alien and unhuman, something uncannily disturbing, behind the Hindoo's stare.

    The Door into Infinity | Edmond Hamilton
  • Awe sank coldly through me at memory of that colossal land where I was pygmy indeed, an insolent human intruder upon the unhuman.

    The Thing from the Lake | Eleanor M. Ingram